Awards & Honors

2026

Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship

University of Minnesota · Recognizing the university's most accomplished Ph.D. candidates. Amount: $26,000

CS&E Announces 2026-27 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (DDF) Award Winners

2025

IOP Outstanding Reviewer Award

IOP Publishing · Recognized for peer review contributions to the Journal of Neural Engineering.

2025

Best paper award

Korean Academy of Human Resource Development · "AI-Powered HRD Analytics: A Machine Learning Approach to Understanding Organizational Dynamics"

2024

2nd Prize — AI/ICT Assistive Device Nationwide Competition

Korea Employment Agency for Persons with Disabilities · "K-AI prosthetic model and platform architecture."

2023

3rd Prize — Social Data Analysis Nationwide Competition

Daishin Group, Korea ESG Lab · GNN-based network analysis using Graph Convolution Network.

2022

1st Prize — Industrial Hemp AI Hackathon (Korea nationwide)

Korean National Information Society Agency · GNN-based federated learning framework.

2019

1st Prize — Asia Open Data Challenge (International)

Here Technologies, GIGABYTE & WeatherRisk, Microsoft & PChome (Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Thailand) · Conv-LSTM model for wind-energy generation prediction.

2019

2nd Prize — KEPCO Software Competition (Korea nationwide)

Korea Electric Power Corporation · Solar energy generation prediction using machine learning.

2018

2nd Prize — University Student Idea National Contest

Korean Ministry of SMEs & Startups, Hyundai Motors.